Saucepan.



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SAUCEPAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,307, dated December5, 1899.

Application filed September 22, 1899. Serial No. 73l,34.-3.- (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS B. WISMER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsyl- Vania,have invented a new and useful Sauce pan, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in saucepans. I V

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofsaucepans and analogous utensils and to provide a simple, inexpensive,and efficient one, adapted to be automatically opened by the ebullitionof its contents to permit the escape of steam and capable of preventingits contents from escaping and running over upon the stove or otherheating apparatus and causing disagreeable odors.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hinge connectionbetween the cover and the body of a saucepan or other vessel, adaptedalso to serve as a handle for opening and closing the lid or cover.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a saucepanconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figuresof the drawings.

1 designates a saucepan provided at its top with an inclined portion orflange 2, forming a flaring month and extending above the diskshaped lidor cover 3, to provide a receptacle of increased capacity for thepurpose of preventing the escape of any of the contents of thereceptacle during ebullition and to avoid the disagreeable odorsresulting from such shaped rod 8, composed of a short approximatelyvertical arm and a long horizontal arm extending from the center of thelid to the cut-away portion of the flange and provided thereat with aneye 9, through which the eye 6 passes. The eye 9 is formed by coiling orbending the rod on itself, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2, and thelower end 10 of the short arm is bent at an angle and secured to thecenter of the lid. The rod which eX- tendshorizontally from the flangeis arranged Within easy reach and forms a convenient handle adapted tobe readily grasped by the operator in opening and closing thereceptacle. During the ebullition of the contents of the pan the coveror lid 3 is lifted vertically, and its entire edge or periphery isseparated from the adjacent surface of the recep- 7o tacle to provide anescape for steam at all points, and the inclined flange,which extendsabove the cover, will prevent the contents from escaping and coming incontact with the stove or heating apparatus, and all disagreeable odorsresulting from such contact will be avoided.

Although the improvements are shown applied to asaucepan in theaccompanying drawings, it will bereadily apparent that they areapplicable to all kinds of receptacles employed for boiling theircontents, such as clothes-boilers, coffee-pots, teapots, tea-ket tles,and the like. It will also be apparent that the device is exceedinglysimple and inexpensive in construction and that the cover, which isautomatic in its operation, will rise and fall as the boiling increasesand diminishes and that the inclined flange will effectually prevent theescape of the contents of the receptacle. Furthermore,the hinge memher,which connects the lid with the body of the receptacle, serves as ahandle for opening and closing the latter.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and 5 cover consisting of a diskarranged within the receptacle and supported at the base of the saidflange, and a connecting-piece extending from the cover to the upperedge of the flange and hinged to the latter, whereby the cover isadapted to swing upward bodily to carry its entire periphery away fromthe supporting-surface, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a receptacle, a coversupported within the receptacle at a point below the upper edge thereof,and a connecting-rod hinged to the upper edge of the receptacle andextending inward therefrom over the cover and secured to the latter,said rod forming a hinge connection and serving as a handle for thecover, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in 20 the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS B. WVISMER.

Witnesses:

H. SEIDEL THROM, ADAM L. OTTERBEIN.

